The Portland daily press., 1887-08-08
the STATE.
ANDRoscoeeIN COUNTY.

The new lodging house at Poland Camp
Ground Is nearly completed 1t will contain
twenty sleeping rooms which will be fur
nished. The boarding house, to be kept by
of Mr.. Emmons' friends are making up a
party to dine with him some day before the
meetings open.
At Liyermore Fallsthe other day. wom-
an living in the village was taken i'll, and one
OF the physicians received call for some
medicine for her relief. Among other things
he sent her generous dose Of mustard, to
be applied in the1orm of a p0ultice on the
back OF the neck. Instead, she mixed the
entire quantity Of mustard with a glass Of
water and drank 1t. IL threw her into vi0-
lent fit Of vomiting, and she suffered intense
pain. She IS doing well now, and bids fair
to recover, but won't drink another mustard
poultice.
Stanley's Black Amhle made big perform
ance at the Maine State Fair track, Friday
afternoon--a mile In 2.2S4 the last quarter in
364 seconds, a % clip.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
At railroad rally at Mars Hill July 23d,
1t was voted unanimously that Mars Hill
should lift all 1t could and should Join the
Northern Maine procession with at least S5,-
0C0, and more If 1t became necessary. A
town meeting Is to be called Immediately.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The selectmen Of Pennington, Saturday,
granted the Pennington Electric Light Com
pany permission to erect and maintain poles
and wire on the streets. The company have
purchased Huse's spool factory, with the en-
gine and boiler, and contracted for dynamos
etc, for plant of three hundred lights, arc
and incandescent, Edison system. Work
will be at once pushed rapidly forward.
KNOX COUNTY
Officer Peabody, Of Thomaston, arrested
James ellison, Thursday night, at Roekland.
(NilgnD hQlOp0a1 in ia ardinar nd 81 orrtUr
forged an order on parties there. He was
taken to Gardiner Friday.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Lincoln County news is informed that
Thursday, August 18th, Is the day set by the
Knox, Lincoln and Sagadahoc Sunday School
Association for their Ninth Annual Mass
Convention at the Campground in Noble
borO.
The annual reunion of the veterans of
Knox and Lincoln counties, will be held in
Welt's Grove, near Winslow's Mills, Waldo
boro, Friday, Aug. 10.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
b. III. Beale Post, G. A. r.. has appointed
committee to make arrangements for the
entertainment of Hiram G.. Berry Post, G.
A. r.. of Maiden, Mass, on its arrival in
Bangor, on the nth inst.
1t is rumored that news Industry Is to be
started in Dexter, in the shape Of a pant
mandatory to be run by power, with a ca
pdCity VI buIniuS out from one t1OuSanu 10
fifteen hundred pairs OF pants per week, pro-
vided the requisite amount Of help can be OBJ
tanned. From fifty to seventy-fve hands will
be required.
Harry Jordan of Bangor, fred two shots
from pistol Saturday night at a man whom
his wife had asked TO walk home with her,
as she was afraid to go through the streets
alone. Neither shot took effect. johnson
was arrested.
PIsCATAoUIs COUNTY.
The Piscataquis Valley Camp Meeting will
commence Aug. oath, on their grounds in
Foxcroft, continuing one week.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY
A committee from the Bath city govern
ment, with number of citizens, went to
Biddeford and Old Orchard Saturday night
TO acquaint themselves with the workings II
the electric light system In those places. 1t
is expected that facts viii be learned that
VIII dispose OF arguments used by those OPP
posed to the Introduction of electric lights IN
Bath. Mayor Wakefield was with the party.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The farm buildings in Cornville belonging
70 H. L. and II. j. Robinson, and 25 tons OF
hay in the barn were burned Friday night.
Loss Sl,cco; insurance 500.
The DOdlin Granite Works. Norridgewock,
nave contracts to furnish mile of curbing
Tor 81. Paul, and a half mile for Cincinnati
also to furnish the stone for the piers and
abutments OF the new iron bridge across the
Carrabassett. The quarry Is about to be
connected with the Somerset Railroad, by a
track mile long.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The recent rain visited the wells so in Yves.
| ley that there seems but little danger from q
| drouth this season. About fifty tons of hay
| were hurt during the rain in that town. Hay
Is rather better than the average this year.